A team of Israeli experts will go to Managua, Nicaragua shortly to formulate plans to aid the victims of the earthquake that devastated that city last month, the Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. The mission will be headed by MK Arie Eliav and several other experts who worked with him on earthquake relief in Iran ten years ago.
The Tahal water planning company plans to send an expert of its own, Arie Patranis, who will leave for Nicaragua early next week. He will be accompanied by several other Tahal executives, including Rafael Gurevitch who was a deputy to Eliav in Iran and in a regional development scheme in Israel’s Lachish region. Before going to Nicaragua, Eliav will be serving on behalf of the Knesset as an observer at the inter-parliamentary conference on European security in Helsinki, Finland.
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